The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation is pleased to introduce the 2023 Curci Ph.D. Scholars. The Curci Foundation worked with the University of California Berkeley, the University of California San Diego, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Utah, and the University of Washington, each of which selected incoming Ph.D. students in Life Sciences to receive funding to assist with tuition and living expenses.
University of California Berkeley

Simran Bawa
Department: Integrative Biology

Eway Cai
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology

Xiuyuan Cheng
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Jason Hu
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology

Dorra Jedoui
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology

Juliana Lee
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California San Diego

Wanning Cui
Department: Biological Sciences

Deborah Kutner
Department: Biological Sciences

Shuozhi Liu
Department: Biological Sciences

Weronika Matysik
Department: Biological Sciences

SungWoo Park
Department: Biological Sciences

Abhinaya Pathak
Department: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution
University of California San Francisco

Brenda Ametepe
Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley

Haoyu Fan
Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Tayma Handal
Department: Developmental and Stem Cell Biology

Nikhita Kirthivasan
Department: Biomedical Sciences

Chloe Kong
Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley

Chang Liu
Department: Tetrad
University of Colorado Boulder

Oscar Cordova
Department: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Sofi Leon Gonzalez
Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Norah Nyangau
Department: Integrative Physiology

Coralie Phanord
Department: Psychology and Neuroscience
Negar Rahimi
Department: Physiology

Sen Wang
Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
University of Utah

Tara Buzinski
Department: Biological Chemistry

Nicole Lacey
Department: Mathematics

Hannah Meier
Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Laurence Saint Pierre
Department: Biomedical Engineering

Brooklyn Vargas
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Chuang Zhang
Department: Molecular Pharmaceutics
University of Washington

Richmond Kwane Boateng
Department: Biochemistry

Sophia Chioma Chima
Department: Global Health
Yufei Gao
Department: Bioengineering
Zeidy Garcia
Department: Microbiology

Olivia Waltner
Department: Genome Sciences

Ruowei Zhu
Department: Laboratory Medicine and Pathology